Ventilated bed



(No Model.)

SQ P. PAIETTA. VENTILATED BED.

No. 505,250. Patente'd' Sept. 19, .1893.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SANTINO P. PAIETTA, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

VENTILATED BED.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 505,250, datedSeptember '19, 1893.

Application filed April 3, 1893I Serial No.468,888. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, SANTINO P. PAIETTA, a cltizen of the United States,residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of lilinois, haveinvented a new and useful Improvement in Ventilated Beds, of which thefollowing is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a bed with means whereby theoccupant may IO be fanned with air-currents while reposing. To this endI provide at an end of the bed, or other form of couch, preferably theheadend, an air-pipe extending across it and which should be locatedjust above the plane to I 5 which the pillows reach, the pipe beingperforated or provided with a longitudinal series of outlets for airalong the side facing the foot of the bed; and an air-pressure device,such as a bellows, having connected with it for operating it, a train ofclock-wheels impelled by a spring or weight, or any analogous automaticoperating means, supplies the air under pressure to the perforated pipewhence the currents emerge and fan the oocupant of the bed. As adesirable addition in my device, I also extend from the crosspipereferred to an adjustable perforated pipe adapted to be extendedlengthwise of the bed from which to direct air-currents downward uponthe occupant;

Referring to the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is a cross-sectionalview of a bed provided with my improvement; and Fig. 2 is a longitudinalsection of the same.

A is a bed, though it may be any other form of couch to which myimprovement is applicable.

Extending across the head A of the bed is a perforated pipe B, with itsline of perforations facing the foot-portion. The pipe B may serve as arail forming a permanent part of the head A, or it may be a mereattachment thereon; and the position of the pipe should be such as toprevent it from being obstructed by the pillows, thus above the plane towhich they extend, while it should be adequately low and so placed tocause the air-currents emerging from it to exert the desired fanningeffect on the occupant of 5 the bed.

0 is an air-compressor, shown in the form of a double-acting bellowsadapted to force air at each stroke of the rodrwhich connects it withits motor D; and the bellows communicates from its outlet, through apipe (1 with the ventilating-pipe B.

As a motor, I show and prefer to employ a clock-work train of wheels Ddriven by a weight D adapted to be wound up to drive the wheels andactuate the bellows by connection therewith of the rod r through themedium of an eccentric connection thereof with the last wheel of thetrain; the driving mechanism being preferably incased and supported onthe backof the head A.

B is a transverse extension of the pipe B, with which it is connected,near its longitudinal center, by a pivotal joint, the pipe B beingformed in jointed sections, similar to a jointed gas-bracket for walls,with the perforations in the under sides of the sections, whereby it maybe turned to extend at any desired length longitudinally of the bed anddirect the air-currents down upon the occupant of the bed; and the pipeB should be provided with a valve 19 to control the supply of air to it.

As will be understood from the foregoing description of the apparatus,the motor D, when set in motion by winding up the weight D effectsworking of the bellows C, to force a supply of air under pressure intothe ventilating pipe or pipes on the bed, whence the air-currents areblown over the occupant.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- Incombination with a bed, a ventilating apparatus comprising a pipe Bextending transversely across the bed at one end thereof near the planeto which the pillows reach and having perforations in its side facingthe opposite end of the bed, an extension B of the pipe B pivotallyconnected therewith near its center and formed in jointed sectionshaving perforations in their under sides, whereby

